Via Magazine – March 1, 2014

The back roads of Oregon’s fertile valley reveal lush scenery, small-town appeal, and sophisticated pleasures. For 25 years I’ve been traversing the Willamette Valley from my home in southern Oregon to Eugene or Portland. I usually take the freeway, blasting up I-5 “without seeing a single thing,” as John Steinbeck wrote about interstate system users in Travels with Charley. Read full article